Research Highlights

Highlights

ECE Professor Emeritus Nick Holonyak Jr. and two of his former students--George Craford and Russell Dupuis--are among the recipients of the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize, one of the most prestigious engineering awards in the world. They are honored for their contributions to developing the energy-efficient LED lighting technology. Read on...

MNTL researchers have developed gelatin nanoparticles that can deliver medicine directly to the brain. Administered nasally, the medicine-laced particles target damaged brain tissue by bypassing the blood-brain barrier, a biological fence that prevents most drugs from entering the brain via the bloodstream. Read on...

The researchers hope the gelatin nanoparticles, administered through the nasal cavity, can help deliver other drugs to more effectively treat a variety of brain injuries and neurological diseases. - See more at: http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=10409#sthash.ZerRK2ig.dpuf

gelatin nanoparticles target damaged brain tissue thanks to an abundance of gelatin-munching enzymes produced in injured regions. - See more at: http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=10409#sthash.ZerRK2ig.dpuf

gelatin nanoparticles target damaged brain tissue thanks to an abundance of gelatin-munching enzymes produced in injured regions. - See more at: http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=10409#sthash.ZerRK2ig.dpuf